Activity

For October, despite being a very busy month, I had to squeeze out some time to practice basketball. I began with conditioning myself on daily basis and did shooting and dribbling drills every other day. Everyday basketball would take around 2 hours until 5. This experience taught me about “balance”, back then, I felt like being balanced is fairly simple and easy, and I felt like I was a balanced person because I participated in different activities, I was filling my time with different things so I felt good. but moving into senior year, being balanced is also finding that inner peace and not let that sense of anxious urgency disrupt your flow, for example, during this month, I found it difficult to not think about grades and all the due assignments when playing basketball, I found it extremely hard to just give 100% on the court because it feels like something more important is still there. I asked my coach for advice because I really felt like struggling and even considered to stop training for the tryout and quit basketball team, but after a short conversation, he and I both believed that this would be good experience for me to learn how to actually be balanced so eventually I decided to continue. I’m still not really good at doing this because sometimes I will just give up a task to priotize the more important one, and I think that’s when a lot of problems will start occuring.

 

 

 

Service and Creativity

What I learned

This month CAC finished our installation artwork, it was presented in the lobby. The instllation art project went really smoothly,  we had a total of 7 artwork sessions for the members. and throughout these 7 sessions, many changes were implemented to reach the ideal goal. My primary goal for these drawing sessions were to let make members take initiative, and make them come to the session every other week naturally without feeling being forced. To make the environment better, we rearranged the seats, played lofi music, brough snacks. For the executives, they must be involved in the artwork session as well so it makes the members feel like the executives are with them, they are not just coming to the session and doing their own stuff. I understood that usually, the number of members coming to the meeting will decrease as time goes by, so we tried really hard to prevent this from happening, from email to social media, the announcements, and initiating “side events” such as hoodies, CAC monthly artwork competition, I belelive we made the members feel like the club is very active and thus they would be willing to participate. These changes and attempts eventually yielded a pretty good result, inthe first 2 meetings, we had almost 30 people, in the last meeting, we had around 20-25 people, and the rest who did not come all priotized the artwork and completed on time. This experience taught me that if I want something to demonstrate “maintenance” and “consistency” I need to actually put efforts into these little things, we cannot just run the drills every other week afterschool. In the executive meeting, I would tell the executives about my experience as the president of the club and many psycological effects I “discovered” as I went through this journey, the main thing I would tell them is to always close your eyes and imagine what things will look like if you were a member.